Myths Concerning the Creation of Constellations and the Universe Long, long ago, the world slept in the arms of a dark void. From this place of nothingness, Spirit drew together and created our Lady of infinite love. The Lady danced among the heavens, her feet beating out the rhyth, of all creation. Sparks of light catapulted from her hair, giving birth to the stars and plantes. As she twirled, these heavenly bodies began to move with her in the divine symphony of the universe… when thunder roars in the heavens and lightning cracks from the ground, the Lord and Lady dance the divine myth of creation so that we may remember them and know that we are never alone. When the sun rises each morning, we bask in the joy of his love for us, and when the moon moves through her phases, we understand the cycle of birth, growth, death, and rebirth, as is the nature of our kind. Paganism today is rife with astrological references.
These references are most apparent in the calendar of holidays- the wheel of the year. The winter and summer solstices, the longest and shortest days of the year, are celebrated- as are the fall and spring equinoxes, when day and night are of equal duration. The full and new moon phases are honored as sacred times. Each constellation has many myths surrounding its creation, as well. The Greek bear myth involves the Big and Little Dippers, Ursa major and Ursa minor. It is said that the Greek god Zeus fell in love with Callisto, a beautiful mortal. When Zeus wife, Hera, learned of this, she became intensely jealous and changed Callisto into a bear! Callisto retained her humanemotions, though, and when she saw her son, Arcas, she reached out to greet him. The son thought he was being attacked and started to kill the bear.
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At that moment, Zeus intervened and placed Callisto in the sky as the Great Bear, Ursa major. He later placed her son, Arcas, near her as the Little Bear, Ursa minor. Zeus jealous wife, Hera, was not done with her mischief yet! She made sure that Poseidon, the god of the sea, would never allow bears into his realm, which is why the two constellations never set. They were destined to remain high in the sky forever. Some say Stonehenge, Europes great stone monument, may have been created for early astronomers to track the movement of the moon and
